“What I think”….
on pouch belly:-
Our body fat has got to sediment at some place in our body. the genetic make-up usually determines that-the stomach for we Indians. Supposing we lash up the belly, to force the fat to the upper torso. Then also the chest will start to bulge out.
The most healthy trick to check a pouch belly is to push the body fat to the dorsal side of chest. This way the lungs which need space to grow up to bring accommodate a larger size to run the big body’s need will also be served right.
Therefore, pull-up exercise is the best, if you want to reduce the tummy.

on Astrology:-
sometimes i've felt intense boredom, emptiness, workless-ness in myself. it's usually after a deep sleep. it feels as though mind has lost direction. the sense of time is upset. I lose out my location.
Why is this so?
Having worked in the precincts of a mechanical device Gyro compass, here is something that occurred me. Otherwise also, this type of thought is very common to occur to a nautical astronomer, maybe giving hints how the science of astronomy could have drifted away into the art of astrology, back in the history.
The word ‘lunatic’ has, in the past, been derived and used - to describe a man’s mental health as affected by movement of the ‘luna’ -the moon.
The training of mind is something a common experience for any hard-practiced achiever - be it academics or sports , or anything else. The word ‘focus’, ‘concentration’. etc have been used to describe some property to mind.
I think, much like how our body has got it’s own ‘body clock’ to regulate various body operations, we also have a kind of a ‘gyro’ compass to help the mind work in a certain streamlined manner. However, this body compass is also subject to ‘wobbling’ , like how it happens in case of the failure of gyro compass. This compass is direction-ed or aligned towards a given star depending on various factors, a strong influential factor in which could be the position of the biggest celestial body around us, which exerts the strongest gravitation pull on our body fluids-- the sun.
The solar pull gives a certain direction to our body compass, depending on what time of the year we were born. That is how our zodiac sign finds it’s birth. The constellation in which the sun lies at the time of birth , gives us our zodiac sign.
This assignment, further by making some due observation, gives the astrology-observers, experiential knowledge of how the person of certain zodiac sign is expected to run his thoughts. Basis this, it is possible to give a very rough and broad-term predictions of his future or behaviour, and advise him of his own conduct in the given time of the year.
This kind of prediction, obviously, had lots of limitations , but in some sense can be taken to be well-advanced with respect to olden times, and kind of a baby step to form more accurate attempts at predicting one’s future.
A hard time-taking training of mind can be done to align it any other direction, to bend the flow of thoughts in any other chosen direction.
The above argument deeply hinge on the presence of this gyro of our mind, proving or disproving which can help on further researches on this line of thought.
PS: the above is strictly a copyright-able work of this author. Nobody, particularly the hindu-religious fanatics, is (not) allowed to steal it in any form, to give it in his/their work of any form. :-) . I assume they would be the first kind of people to cash on such absurd imagino-scientific works.

Movie Review: Aamir

Movie Review: AAMIR
If I were to prepare my list of best bollywood produces for the year that has just been, I guess ‘Aamir’ would be the one to which I would give full credits. A touchy, more socially, politically, sectary matured story giving a deeper and broader message that any other flick. I can sense “a Wednesday” is making bigger raves than this, (in fact Aamir has not even won nominations this year among the popular movies) , but the critic and social thinker should uphold ‘Aamir’ no where inferior to any other.
Rajeev Khandelwal’s Muslim character, eye-cocking smile, chasing around the suburbs and shanties of Mumbai make up for the back ground of a common man, superficially of a Muslim religion, but in depth, of any random citizen who can rather not be identified of his religion by his ordinary routines.
‘A Wednesday’ describes the frustration of a common man, portrayed by a real-life muslim, Nasser-ud-din Shah, who revenges upon his neglect by both, the authorities and the terrorists. The main character, who refuses to divulge his name to lend a stronger impact in his message, is shown to be an aged man, who is other wise working at the instructions of his wife, to help her support and nurture the family, much like we all do.
In comparison, “Aamir” describes a young man, happily occupied in his day to work, having a girlfriend, (in fact one from outside his sect - a hindu), and as though unaware of the predicaments of our politico-bureaucratic on-goings( the chief components of ’System’). He is suffering from asthma; he is god- fearing nevertheless; he is caring for his mother and rest of his family, much like us and also like those terrorist who schematically attempt to rope him in there religious-zealot activity. Throughout the movie, Aamir runs pillar to post, just like most of us would agree to do if suddenly caught unprepared to take speeches and provocation of that kind,( and join in to do what Aamir goes around doing), un-thinking. But his happy background, his last minute self-realisation, his acknowledgment of all the gifts that he has received from the society despite all neglects and failures that have also come along, make him a true AAMIR : the leader of the people.
Perhaps this kind of context would have been more befitting to describe person like, say, Ajmal Aamir Kasab, who failed to become a true Amir, only for failing to make his last-moment decision.
Anger and frustrations are perhaps the jewel of youth years. Youth has always been identified with this. Youth is a ‘system-basher’ , a ‘system-fighter‘ , an ‘anti-system’ gun. That is why, he is also easy to be trapped by the other cold-blooded planners to execute their vicious plans.
Aamir is a story of one such person, but who chooses to wake himself up, to make a bigger voluntary self-sacrifice, sending a chill down the spines of every one, making a more deep impact on the psychology of his mentors and the audiences of the movie.
System-bashing is agreed as a natural act, but should not result into damaging the life of other people very finely threaded with the system.

The other flicks I saw and liked are: Welcome to Sajjanpur, Dasvidaniyan, a Wednesday

The joke dates back to time when were doing Pre-sea at MTI in 1998. There was one Captain K Gupta, our course-cod, who was very supercilious , condescending, torturous to us.
But he was never able to pronounce Ankit’s surname correctly. He called him, “Ga-ra-g”. Conscientious of this, once he attempted to pre-empt his ridiculing from us saying that, “you people must be laughing, na?”
Shy and sincere, we immediately negated his charge, saying “no sir, we don’t”.
The captain struck back, also affirming his old claim, “Then you people are idiots”. !!!

Nice song: Sabka Katega by Bodhi Tree.